On July 16, Andy Byron, the CEO of a medium-sized software company, attended a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The jumbotron camera turned to Byron, who was holding Kristin Cabot, the company’s HR director, around the waist. When they noticed themselves on camera, they immediately disengaged, with Cabot turning her back and Byron awkwardly ducking out of view. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” said Coldplay’s lead singer, Chris Martin, to the stadium audience of 66,000. Cabot and Byron were indeed married, but not to each other. The clip quickly went viral on TikTok, then everywhere else.
Initially, I thought no more about it than any of the other wild and scandalous clips that cross my desk daily: “None of my business.” Far be it from me to cast judgment on another man’s sin.
